Wood Products News

New WISA plywood innovations at IAA 2010

(September 21, 2010) UPM exhibits new WISA plywood innovations at IAA Commercial Vehicles September 23-30, 2010. At the show, UPM introduces several new plywood solutions for trailer flooring, soundproofing in buses and linings and floorings for vans. Read more »


November 6, 2009
WISA plywood products granted CARB certification for low formaldehyde emissions »

November 4, 2009
Branchentag Holz 2009 is the event of the wood products' industry in Germany »

August 26, 2009
UPM Plywood Introduces Sales and Customer Services for Poland »

April 29, 2009
UPM combines innovation with knowledge of wood materials »

September 19, 2008
WISA plywood solutions exhibited in IAA in Hanover, Germany »

September 8, 2008
UPM to increase further processing of birch plywood in Russia »

September 4, 2008
UPM celebrates plywood mill extension in Otepää today - A coating line to be built at the mill next year »

August 19, 2008
UPM to close Leivonmäki sawmill »

July 14, 2008
UPM's birch plywood and wood plastic composite in on creating the atmosphere of the Piano pavilion in Lahti »

June 16, 2008
Chudovo Mill celebrates its first million cubic metres »

May 27, 2008
WISA®-Image at drupa 2008 »

May 21, 2008
WISA products have been used to build the Olympic Games in Beijing »

October 26, 2007
UPM STARTS TO CE-MARK WISA SAWN TIMBER AND FURTHER PROCESSED PRODUCTS »

October 8, 2007
Durable and environmentally friendly UPM ProFi – a new innovation of UPM »

April 24, 2007
UPM modernizes and expands birch plywood production at Otepää in Estonia »

April 16, 2007
Bauma 2007 - New Munich Trade Fair Centre from 23 to 29 April 2007 »

March 29, 2007
UPM to start selling FSC certified plywood in the UK and France »

February 20, 2007
UPM's surface treatment line for wood products starts today at Aureskoski »

April 10, 2006
UPM sells its plywood mill in France »

April 10, 2006
UPM to decrease production at two of its spruce sawmills in Finland due to log shortage »

March 8, 2006
UPM to shut down timber further processing mill in UK Midlands »

December 14, 2005
UPM receives a major plywood order from Korea »

September 9, 2005
UPM and Anaika Engineering to start co-operation »

August 19, 2005
UPM invests EUR 6 million in wood products further processing in Parkano and Heinola »

July 14, 2005
‘Lilja’ meditative chapel made from UPM’s WISA wood products »

June 9, 2005
UPM acquires entire share capital of Russian wood products company »

January 20, 2005
UPM to invest EUR 14 million in developing competitiveness of wood product manufacture in Finland »

December 8, 2004
UPM invests 4.5 million euros in Kaukas Plywood Mill »

June 1, 2004
WISA-Multifloor is a durable and attractive floor solution »

January 20, 2004
UPM receives major plywood order from China »

August 19, 2003
UPM-Kymmene started CE marking of construction plywood »

May 23, 2003
UPM-Kymmene Wood Products Industry's manufacturing units to merge under the new company name UPM-Kymmene Wood Oy »